Japanese text to speech turns written Japanese into spoken audio. This page is a free online Japanese text to speech converter: write or paste your Japanese text, pick one of 28 voices, and download the MP3, with no sign-up and nothing to install.
How to convert Japanese text to speech
- Write or paste your Japanese text into the box. A sentence, a script, or a full article all work.
- Open Settings and set the language to Japanese. This page opens with Japanese already selected, so you only need to check it.
- Pick a voice from the chips, or open More voices to hear the full lineup of 28. Every voice can read Japanese.
- Press Generate speech and the audio plays right away, then press Download MP3 to save the file to your device.
That is the whole flow. Without an account: 20 uses a day, up to 1,000 characters each.
How to write Japanese text that sounds natural
- Punctuation sets the pacing. A comma
、marks the short break inside a sentence and a period。closes one, so normal sentence punctuation gives the read a place to breathe. A long line with no punctuation comes back as one breathless take. - A kanji word can have more than one reading, and names and rare words are where the read is most likely to surprise you. If a word must be read one specific way, spell it in kana instead of kanji.
- Numbers and English abbreviations can be read in more than one way. Listen to a short sample first, and if the reading is not the one you wanted, write the number or abbreviation out the way it should be spoken.
- Every voice reads the same words a little differently, so audition two or three voices with a short paragraph before you commit a long script.
This page is one preset of the site's main text to speech tool: the same 28 voices and 20 languages, with the language selector free to change. If your text is in another language, start there.
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